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246 R. W. Macanmonths later, he inaugurated a succession of daintyvolumes, chiefly containing poems by his friends (Bridges,Dixon, Gosse, Sir Herbert Warren, Mrs Woods and others)destined to be the despair of impecunious bibliophiles.Mr Falconer Madan, Bodley's Librarian emeritus, ourgreatest authority on books printed in Oxford, to whomI owe many of these details, describes the DanieJ pressas 'a pioneer of the Victorian renaissance of Englishprinting'. Happy those, who possess one or more ofthese amateur bibelots, printed not for lucre but for love;thrice happy, who possess a complete set of Our Memories,one of Daniel's latest productions, wherein form andsubstance are alike the printer's own.For the University Press the 'seventies was a time ofgrowing prosperity under the capable handling of theSecretary, the Rev. Bartholomew Price, Sedleian Professorof Natural Philosophy, afterwards Master ofPembroke, and so a Canon of Gloucester. For thirtyyears, from 1868, he was life and soul of the ClarendonPress. He purchased for the Delegates the WolvercotePaper Mill in 1870. His financial ability was furtherdemonstrated by his success in buying out the partnersin the business (of whom Mr Combe was the last), who,since the great Dr Fell's time, had shared in the policy,and the profits, of the undertaking. Under Price'smanagement the whole became again the sole propertyof the University, and for years contributed a substantialsum to the income of the Chest. The Clarendon PressSeries, a large selection of works chiefly of educationalinterest, in twelve separate sections, was begun in 1867,and continued throughout our decade. In 1879 the NewEnglish Dictionary was undertaken by the Press, thegreatest of those 'lexicographical enterprises, which wereOxford's chief contribution to learning in the latter halfof the nineteenth century'. The production of the Caxton